What's more important .... Passion or Fun?

[DanceMentor]

What is more important to you when it comes to danicing?

A passion for being the best dance you can be

or

Having fun and enjoying it

[Sagitta]

I think of enjoying the dance, and not passion of the dance, or being the best dancer I can be, or of having fun. I can enjoy a passionate dance and a fun happy bouncy dance. I'm passionate about enjoying dance. I know, I've not really answered the poll or the question, but neither option is really applicable. How can it be? It's everything all rolled in one. Remove one component and then dancing ain't what it is supposed to be for me.

[Genesius Redux]

I'm gonna be a party pooper and not accept the distinction. To me being the best dancer I can be is what makes it fun. How can you have fun if you feel you're not at your personal best?

[etchuck]

I agree. I think I aspire to the point where I cannot distinguish one or the other of the choices (as described). To me, it's a gradual development for having fun doing an activity to being completely absorbed and passionate about it while having fun.

I suppose you mean the level of seriousness attached to this? Can one be serious and have fun at the same time? I think you can, but we will dovetail back to arguing the differences with social and competitive dancing.

[youngsta]

I'm gonna be a party pooper and not accept the distinction. To me being the best dancer I can be is what makes it fun. How can you have fun if you feel you're not at your personal best?
What he said! :wink:

[dragon3085]

Being the best dance you can be without having fun, is , I believe, also know as being obssesive compulsive. Well maybe not really, but its close. For I want to be the best I can be, but not at the expensive of fun. I've even told the studio owners, that so long as I am having fun, I will probably be inclined to buy more lessons, but the minute I cease to have fun dancing, I also cease to be at the studio.

[etchuck]

Actually, I'm going to rethink what I said and add...

When I dance socially, it's even more important that the other dancer have a bunch of fun dancing with me. The other person's passion of dancing only enhances how I dance with that person. Or that's at least how I've observed things.

[pygmalion]

I think I said this somewhere before, but dancing is an expensive hobby. Since most of us will never be world class (although some are and some will be) what's the point of doing it, if there's no element of fun?

[MadamSamba]

But you can still be the best dancer you can be and have enormous fun...as long as being the best doesn't mean losing the fun side of dancing and taking it so seriously that you forget why you're there...to have fun...

[DanceMentor]

Becoming a great dancer can be quite gratifying, but if you don't enjoy it along the way, don't you think there might be something wrong with that?

[dragon3085]

Of course we might be overlooking one thing. You could put forth the idea that only the dancers that are truly having fun with it, stick with it long enough to become great.